‘Save her’: Hamish McLachlan details daughter’s devastating ordeal – Yahoo Sport Australia

Channel 7 AFL and tennis presenter Hamish McLachlan has opened up about his daughters devastating battle with West Syndrome when she was a baby.
McLachlan has been hosting AFL.coms Last Time I Cried series, encouraging AFL players to open up and speak about their issues.
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But the tables were turned for the final interview of the series as McLachlan became the interviewee.
The veteran TV personality said he received a phone call from his wife in 2013 that changed his life forever.
McLachlan was on air covering the Australian Open at the time and was miffed that his wife Sophie had called so many times.
I just had a heap of missed calls from Soph while I was on-air, he told AFL.com.
It was odd because she knows Im on the tennis, why would she be calling. I spoke to her that night and she said something is wrong with Milla.
She sort of has these little twitches and I cant get her attention for hours, there is something really wrong.
After taking Milla to a paediatrician she was diagnosed with West Syndrome.
A guy comes in, McLachlan said. He looks at me and says: Im Jeremy Freeman, your daughter has West syndrome.
Theres a 10 per cent chance shell die in hospital. Theres an 80 per cent chance shell have brain damage for life. Theres a 10 per cent chance shell get through unscathed.
He said: Its a very rare disease, one in 2500 kids get it. Two-thirds of cases its a brain cancer, its a brain tumour, its a brain lesion. A third of cases its none of those but it is the same outcome. Shell either die, have brain damage for life or shell get lucky.
Hamish and Sophie McLachlan at the 2020 Magic Millions Launch Party. (Photo by Wendell Teodoro/WireImage)
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McLachlan said he picked up Milla and told Freeman save her.
Hamish and Sophie, along with McLachlans brother and current AFL CEO Gillon, had to give Milla steroids orally four times a day for the next few months, however she suffered multiple seizures throughout.
The first time we gave her the four millilitres the screaming started, the doctor said shell lose her voice within 24 hours from screaming in pain, McLachlan said.
McLachlan broke down as he recounted how his brother fell apart while trying to help with Milla.
On the fourth day, Gillon did the 7am session everyday because hed do it on the way to work, he said.
He grabbed Milla and said: Todays the day, she wont have a seizure today.
And I remember him, I gave him Milla and went to the kitchen, got the steroid out, putting it in the syringe and by the time I got to Gill, she was having seizures in his arms.
He was crying saying: How can it happen to someone who doesnt deserve it?
Milla suffered swelling so bad that her own brother didnt even recognise her, and McLachlan said he feared they were losing their amazing, beautiful, healthy child.
Hamish McLachlan interviews Easton Wood during an AFL game in 2018. (Photo by Adam Trafford/AFL Media/Getty Images)
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But after three months Milla had responded and her brain patterns were back to normal.
After six months Milla had become part of the 10 per cent who survive, with Dr Freeman describing her as a miracle.
Shes got a highlighter, shes doing bits and pieces, McLachlan said.
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